Question

I want to store the values contained in an XML file to a java String Object.
Here is my XML code :

<properties>
  <comment>test.xml</comment>
  <entry key="1">test1</entry>
  <entry key="2">test1,test2,test3</entry>
  <entry key="3">test1,test2,test3</entry>
<properties>

I want ‘values’ to be stored in a string.
Eg:

String msg;
if(msg.equals("1")){
  String str1 = //get values of key "1" (ie) test1
}
else if(msg.equals("2")){
  String str2 = //get values of key "2" (ie) test1,test2,test3
}

Is there any way to do it using HashMap or anything??
Thanks.

Answer 1

This looks like a Java XML properties file. If so, you can load it straight into a Properties object by calling properties.loadFromXML.

Properties prop = new Properties();
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("props.xml");
prop.loadFromXML(fis);
System.out.println("Value of key 1 is: " + prop.getProperty("1")); //prints test1

Note that for this to work, The XML document must have the following DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">